Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union" for all workers; whiskered John Rae, first U. M. W. A. president, whose son appeared at the convention last week. There were the nameless dead-of catastrophe, foul air, killing hours in the mines; murdered by company thugs; murdered, too, by union gangs whose internecine wars reddened the rise of U. M. W. A. and John Lewis. And at home last week in Glenalum, Sarah Ann and Carbondale, Black Lick and Conemaugh, in coal towns from Nova Scotia to Alabama, were the 600,000* members...
...cover costs. Last week, to explain prices to the TNEC, Ben Fairless produced an expert, University of Chicago Statistics Professor Theodore Ott Yntema. Substance of sharp-eyed, youthful Expert Yntema's very technical mathematical-metaphysical testimony: the corporation is burdened with large inflexible costs; steel sales do not rise in proportion as the price falls; therefore, price cuts reckon without inflexible costs and demand, lead to bankruptcy...
...These hills are jist dirt waves, washing through eternity. My brethren, they hain't a valley so low but what hit'll rise again. They hain't a hill standing so proud but hit'll sink to the low ground o' sorrow. Oh, my children, where air we going on this mighty river of earth, aborning, begetting, and a-dying-the living and the dead riding the waters . . .?" Author Still restrains even this. His boy hero goes to sleep; another begins inattentively to whittle...
...biting statements of the view that the statement of both England and France have bungled European diplomacy, in the face of the new situation caused by the rise of Hitler and Stalin have provoked violent controversy across the water...
Joseph Stefani, business agent of the unions and organizer of the near-strike last year which brought wage increases necessitating a rise in board costs, stated after conferences with Joseph S. Lichty, Assistant Dean, that action on the matter had been put off until June...